With our new magazine format and website, NSSA-NSCA has the opportunity to include reports from many of your shoots, along with photos. While we will have writers covering the largest of sporting clays and skeet events, we'd love to recognize some of those that we won't be covering ourselves.
If you participated in an event, especially if you shot high-quality photos, you are invited to send us a shoot wrap-up.
We will be including some shoot reports in our printed magazine, some on ClayTargetNation.com, and some in both places. We also expect - especially when there's a good selection … [Read more...]

As you might imagine, planning for the first issue of Clay Target Nation began many months ago, but no decision had our editorial team more stumped than the first cover. Of course, it had to be special and set the tone for the months and years to follow. But with coverage of both the World Skeet Championships and National Sporting Clays Championship planned for the inaugural issue, and an earnest desire to spread the wealth evenly between sporting clays and skeet topics, who would get the cover?
One of those head-scratching sessions yielded this statement from yours truly: "Let's have both … [Read more...]

Support a worthwhile charity while having a great time and introducing skeet to some novice shooters at the 22nd annual Ladies Charity Skeet Classic. The 2016 shoot on April 8-10 will be the fifth and final event at Fairfax Rod & Gun Club (Manassas, VA) before moving to a new location.
The upcoming event will benefit wounded warriors from all wars and their families through the Fisher House Foundation, which provides a place to stay for wounded warriors and their families near military treatment facilities across the country.
In addition to a four-gun registered shoot for experienced … [Read more...]

Once again we are reminding NSCA instructors to be wary of inquiries for instructional services that sound out of the norm. Scammers periodically target our instructors, usually starting with what sounds like a lucrative arrangement for a group of wealthy shooters and followed by a request for cash disbursements on their behalf. The scammer usually claims to be a third party making arrangements for others.
While the apparent scammers originally contacted instructors by email, we're hearing from several instructors who are now receiving text messages that follow the same pattern. Here is a … [Read more...]